About Dan Hodges

(FBI, retired)

Specialty Areas: Locating 'Sleepers' Hostage Negotiations Profiling Crime Scene Investigations (Not Forensics) Drug Investigations Title III (Wiretapping) Undercover Operations General Criminal Investigations SWAT Operations Deadly Force Domestic Security

Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1971 to 2001

Conducted investigations in all facets of the FBI including general criminal investigations, foreign counter-intelligence, criminal profiling, SWAT Team missions, hostage negotiations and crisis management.  As a member of the Washington Field Office SWAT Team, and the Memphis Division SWAT Team, participated in the set-up andoperation of FBI approved firing ranges, as well as continually qualified in the upper 90 percentile both for the mandated Special Agent Firearms courses and the enhanced training required for SWAT Team certification. Participated in the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing investigation and subsequent workshop, as well as the Branch Davidian, Waco Texas operation. Following the Columbine High School shootings, served on a fact- finding panel to review the event and assess security shortcomings and provide recommendations for the prevention of future events. During his last year in the FBI Mr. Hodges coordinated the dismantling of a major cocaine cartel involving multi-kilo shipments of cocaine from Mexico to the United States heartland.  This case was named case of the year by the Organized Crime Drug Task Force, U.S. Department of Justice and Mr. Hodges was awarded the Drug Investigator of the Year for the Southeast Region Organized Crime Drug Task Force.  During his FBI career Mr. Hodges negotiated the release of hostages in five separate hostage/crisis situations.  Mr. Hodges also conducted many criminal profiles of crime scenes and assisted in identifying the perpetrators of four separate serial murder cases. He actively instructed the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department hostage negotiations unit and trained new negotiators.

Organizations: 

• Rotary Club of Brentwood

• Society of Former Special Agents, FBI

• InfraGard

• Board of Directors, InfraGard

Education/Certifications:

• Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN  BS, Business Management, 1970

• FBI Academy, New Agents Training Class, 1973. FBI Academy, Quantico, VA

• FBI Academy, Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Criminal Profiling, 1988

• Certified Criminal Profiler, 1988 to 2001, FBI Academy, Quantico, VA

• FBI Academy, Foreign Counterintelligence In-service Course, Graduate, 1978

• Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA. Vietnamese, Graduate (Honors), 1978

Additional Training/Skills: 

• U. S. Army Infantry Officers Basic Course, Ft. Benning, GA – Graduate 1971;

• FBI certified law enforcement instructor in the fields of hostage negotiations, profiling, bank robbery investigations and interviewing;

• FBI hostage negotiations in-service, basic, intermediate and advanced;

• Primary FBI negotiator for the Middle District of Tennessee;

• Certified FBI undercover agent;

• Certified FBI profiler;

• Tennessee affiliate of Crisis Management International, Atlanta, GA, authored “Kidnap/Ransom Manual”;

• FBI SWAT team member from 1980 to 2001;

• Contributing author for the FBI Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) published paper entitled “The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective”

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